Quotes About Progress

Yes, it was a matter of opening doors, he thought. You opened one door and that let you into a place where there were other doors. You chose a door in this new place and examined what that revealed to you. There might be times when you were forced to try all of the doors but the more doors you opened, the more certain you became of which door to open next. Finally, a door would open into a place you recognized. Then you could say: Ahhhh, this explains everything.

Whatever comes from behind the mountains must cross the dunes.

Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed." "And you with all of your memories know otherwise.

Values, my dear grandchild, depend for their acceptance upon their success.

Calea cea lent? e calea cea mai sigur?.

Soltanto gli sciocchi preferiscono il passato!

The future is a thing to be shaped

Frank J. Tipler

there would be an infinite amount of such time between now and the Omega Point.

very simple way

What is happening in the universe and multiverse today is determined by the goal in the far future that has been set for the universe and the multiverse.

Se caminhasses num terreno plano, se tivesses a boa vontade de caminhar e desses apesar disso passos à rectaguarda, então tratar-se-ia de um caso desesperado; mas como sobes um pendor tão escarpado como tu próprio visto de baixo, os passos para trás só podem ser provocados pela natureza do terreno e não tens que desesperar.

The Emerald City has been ruled by men long enough

the re-building process may not be as comfortable as before.

Even if there were only two men left in the world and both of them saints they wouldn't be happy. One them would be bound to try and improve the other. That is the nature of things.

Don't worry about getting perfect, just keep getting better.

had time to grow

We say that a given habit grows on us. Really it grows in us, becomes second nature.

What history teaches us is that men have never learned anything from it." —G. W. F. Hegel, nineteenth-century German philosopher

When Henry Ford invented the Model-T, women shed their bloomers and put sex on the road.

I believe that one day I will like myself.

When Page describes Google reshaping the future of humanity, this isn't simply a description of the convenience it provides; what it aims to redirect is the course of evolution, in the Darwinian sense of the word. It's not too grandiose to claim that they are attempting to create a superior species, a species that transcends our natural form.

But I wish we could throw off some excess weight." Joe eyed Chet slyly.

Beyond a certain point there is no return. This point has to be reached.